Curtiss Malting Company

Share This Page On Social Media

Comments? Corrections? Send us a message about this building

  AT RISK     WATCH LIST  




Curtiss Malting Company







Click for larger image. P-RS, Dennis Maher, Giles Kavanagh
1100 Niagara Street, Buffalo NY 14213

Owner

  • 1100 Niagara Street LLC per city property viewer.
  • Giles Kavanagh per Buffalo News.

Physical Description

  • 45,000 sf warehouse building.

Current Condition

  • Vacant and deteriorating, but under responsible ownership.

History

  • Built as the Curtiss Malting Company.
  • Was an Agway warehouse at one time.
  • Buffalo News:
    • "The 1899 facility was one of the first in the country to harness electric power from Niagara Falls, using it to run a series of malting drums to process the malt.
    • In 1911, the building was sold to the Fleischmann Co., a large multistate malting operation, until Prohibition caused the company in 1920 to become a farmers’ cooperative grain warehouse (Grange League Federation, later Agway), which it remained for 62 years.
    • An unusual, square-shaped concrete grain elevator on the southeast side of the property stands as a testament to that period."
    • The Grange League Federation "owned and operated two feed mills in the city, and, in 1922, its Niagara Street feed mixing operation produced 43,800 tons of dairy and poultry feed. By 1929-30 that site was yielding 547,000 tons." (from this HAER report)

Recent Events and Actions Taken

  • 2014 - Site of a large "Buffalove" installation built as part of BYP's Valentine heart-bombing of worthwhile structures in need of attention.
  • 2015 - A one story add-on structure to the front was removed.
    • Per the owner, Giles Kavanagh: "Fret not. Original building is in surprisingly good shape. I own it. It would be demo'ed over my dead body."
    • When asked about potential reuse: "Not sure what to do, but likely event hall, beer hall. Inside is a natural stage. Probably will be open to multiple functions: weddings, New Years, oktoberfests, concerts, theater, dance."

Other Pertinent Facts

Links


Newest Pages

■ 852 Clinton Street ■ 901 Elmwood Avenue ■ 2866 Main Street ■ 2868 Main Street ■ 309 Mystic Street ■ Lafarge Elevator ■ Liberty National Bank (Hertel & Norwalk) ■ Johnnie Ryan Building ■ Tifft Block ■ 13 Park Street ■ J. Edward Nash House ■ Promised Land Missionary Baptist Church ■ Plymouth Methodist Church Parsonage ■ Parkside Lutheran Church ■ 923 Washington Street ■ 286 Breckenridge Street ■ Park Lane Condominiums ■ Orin Foster Mansion ■ Rohlfs House ■ Little Harlem Hotel ■ Knights of Columbus ■ Hellenic Church of the Annunciation ■ Lafayette Square ■ Hayes Hall Complex ■ Gates Circle Fountain ■ Sullivan Drullard House ■ Carriage House, Franklin Square North ■ Phineas Marsh House ■ Durham Memorial AME Zion Church ■ McKinley Monument

Added 2014-02-03 • Last changed 2018-10-02

Belt Line | Buffalo | Buildings At Risk | Buildings | Grain Elevators | Incomplete Pages | Industrial Buildings | Needs Photo | Watch List | Waterfront | West Side